Deltaslim,
No offense but dont take this personally. I noticed that even though you claim to be pareto in your purchase of equipment, you have not actually kept anything for a long time in my personal observation except for your Thinline Tele which you tried to sell at one point in time. Boss kung talagang pareto ko bakit nagHUM ang tele mo na kay lakas sa MAGNET? Napansin ko rin na dating Jeckyl & Hyde ka pero recently naka TIM ka at Fulldrive 2 10th Anniversary. You also bought a POD pero I dont see you using it. So, I assume that you got rid of it. Also, dati mayroon kang Bassman na pinalitan mo ng THD Univalve na napalitan mo na ng Trademark 60. Also, ang daming dumaan na rin na gitara sa iyo. If you truly concentrate on that 20% that brings in that 80%, what was that magical 20% for you? I am just taking a guess baka nga ang Thinline Tele mo iyon.
Dude, I applied Pareto principle to the issue on continuously improving tone, in this case w/ cables. Now you are making a fallacy of overgeneralization by applying it to all gear-buying decisions, hum(?!), etc.
Pls reread previous post(s), I already said in a previous thread that it's all in the spirit of reseach... you of all people should understand. Pero ako, I try all kinds of stuff, not always for upgrade. But I have a self-imposed policy to minimize the amount of gear I maintain at any one time (for eg, one of each type of gtr lang and no more). And in order to afford trying out new stuff, I have to raise funds for it. Unlike you, I have to sell gear to make way for new stuff to try. The ones I'm pretty much happy with at the time stays with me. But if they have to go, they go. They're just tools. I don't know if these points makes sense to you cuz we all have our own individual value system.
Re Thinline/hum, in case you didn't know, P90s create a lot of noise/hum by themselves. If you use an OD + booster and compressor with it (which I did at the Magnet gig), the hum is exacerbated. But now I've been advised by P90s experts that there's an issue w/ the wiring/shielding, not the pu itself. Oh well, I'm sorry that the hum spoiled your enjoyment of the gig. Although other people heard the hum like you did, they paid more attention to the music. (Maybe the compliments we got meant that the last 20% of tone didn't matter to them too?
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Teka teka... how come you know so much about my gear and what I do with them when in fact I don't talk to you personally about my stuff? And why would you care?? Wow - I'm flattered! LOL!
Anyway, I'm done here... I've overextended my welcome on this thread, boring the hell out of people that they start complaining na.. LOL!
Peace,
- Joric
PS - If you had gone to the blues jam at Conspiracy last Apr 20, you would have understood what this guitar and music thing was all about.
